Places Achim Kuepper Wants to Go

A Cold War site complete with rusty structures, hiking trails, and beautiful views.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

A granite primate with a view.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

The geographic center point of the Golden State.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.